Portia MacIntosh > Quotes

“Your old baggage should never slow you down, and your past mistakes should never define you. The future is entirely what you make it, and who you make it with.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Life's a Beach

“just about loving the ones you love, dealing with the ones you don’t, and keeping yourself sane in the process.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Meet Cute Method

“No one thinks they’re going to get old. We think we’ll always be cool and in touch, with our fingers firmly on the pulse, but then it starts happening. You hate modern fashion, contemporary music sounds like noise, teenagers annoy you just by having fun within proximity of you, and all the men you used to lust after in romcoms are suddenly silver foxes, exclusively cast as dad characters. I live in fear of the day Freddie Prinze Jr is cast as a granddad.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Meet Cute Method

“Sometimes I think that, when you’re going through a difficult time, you don’t realise just how tough things are while you’re going through them. It’s almost like you can’t think about it because, if you were to let yourself dwell on how unbearable things seem, the problems you were facing would seem impossible to overcome. But if you keep moving, you keep your head up and your eyes forward, you’ll be through it before you know it.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Your Place or Mine?

“if you try too hard to force something, you just push it further away, and that the missing piece of the puzzle could be right there under your nose (or a few floors below you at work, at least) just waiting for you to find it. Don’t ignore what’s around you because you’re so focused on what you’re trying to move closer to. You never really know if that person you end up stuck in a lift with may just be the love of your life.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Meet Cute Method

“Don’t get me wrong, I love my family so much it hurts, it’s just that sometimes it quite literally hurts.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Date and Switch: A fun, flirty, love triangle romcom

“but trust me, no matter how much you enjoy doing something, as soon as it’s work, it sucks all the fun out.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Meet Cute Method

“I used to think that each day was a blank canvas, when I was young and naive, but these days I feel as though I’m aimlessly completing the same dot-to-dot puzzle, just going through the motions,”
― Portia MacIntosh, Stuck On You

“Always take chances, and even if they don’t work out, take new ones. You never know what’s waiting around the corner that will completely change your life.”
― Portia MacIntosh, My Great Ex-Scape

“I’ve also realised that it’s never too late to fix things, especially relationships, even if they feel irreparable. None of us know when our last day is going to be, or when our loved ones are going to leave us. Don’t waste a minute being mad, running away from things you don’t want to face. Make things right while you still can because no one on their deathbed is talking about how they wish they’d held more grudges.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Faking It

“People who are nervous, anxious, scared – things that aren’t viewed as positive traits – tend to talk more,’ he explains.”
― Portia MacIntosh, You Had Me at Chateau

“You worry, in the real world whether your worth as a person is attached to your relationship status. You know that it shouldn't be, but as women we are raised to believe that we need to find a man”
― Portia MacIntosh, Honeymoon For One

“while”
― Portia MacIntosh, Going Overboard

“Watching a new movie is like rolling the dice, you don’t know if you’re going to love it or hate it, if you’re going to laugh or cry, if a dog is going to die and ruin the whole thing! So we reach for our old favourites for the comfort of the familiar, because you can always count on your favourite movies to make you feel better.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Your Place or Mine?

“If you have nothing to lose, then you might as well see what you can gain; whether it’s gambling with baby chips that won’t lose me any money if I don’t do well or travelling halfway around the world to reconnect with an ex who might still have feelings for me – it’s worth a shot because there’s nothing to lose. In situations like this, I’d be crazy to not try?”
― Portia MacIntosh, My Great Ex-Scape

“However, it turned out, he was just generally moody, enjoying his own space and peace and quiet – which is not all that sexy, but everyone is entitled to their boundaries.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Suite Life

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― Portia MacIntosh, Falling For You

“And just like that, we have our new first kiss, in the corner of an otherwise empty café on a cruise ship, somewhere in the Atlantic.”
― Portia MacIntosh, My Great Ex-Scape

“though. I’m all ideas and no action, not in real life anyway.”
― Portia MacIntosh, You Had Me at Chateau

“I don’t want to be harsh, Jessa. But I want to be honest,’ he says and I know I’m not going to like this. ‘I do want to get married. Just… not to you.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Going Overboard

“me”
― Portia MacIntosh, Wish You Weren't Here

“Well, you do that, and I’ll do this, and we can see who finds her the better date,’ Kelly suggests with a grin. ‘Game on,’ Tom replies, before heading back to reception.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Suite Life

“I’m the CEO of overthinking, always have been, always will be. The slightest thing can seem like the end of the world and the mildest inconvenience can make me feel like I want to punch a hole through something (although I don’t because breaking the bones in my hand would be a whole new stress to contend with),”
― Portia MacIntosh, No Ex Before Marriage

“It would be nice to find a partner, one for keeps, who loves me for who I am,’ he tells me. ‘So we’re similar, in that respect.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Suite Life

“I know she’s the boss, and with that comes a certain level of control, but I feel like I’m a game of The Sims to her right now.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Meet Cute Method

“Do you know why it happens?’ he asks. I shake my head. ‘I looked it up and apparently it’s because caffeine narrows the blood vessels in your head. When you drink it often your body learns to adapt but, if you skip your usual cups, you end up with enlarged blood vessels, which has a knock-on effect that ultimately leads to a headache.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Better Off Wed

“Don’t reject love just because you’re scared of it. And finally, from one tragic romantic to another, I love you.”
― Portia MacIntosh, The Meet Cute Method

“I feel like girls are always willing to date guys, to give them time to come out of their shell, to see how things go, even if they’re not quite working. And guys just cut and run.”
― Portia MacIntosh, My Great Ex-Scape

“She lived every day in a bubble of bliss, refusing to let negativity inside, because she believed dwelling on the bad things or thoughts was the fastest way to rot your happiness from the inside out.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Your Place or Mine?

“No one wants to admit to themselves that they’ve failed at all things in life, never mind to other people.”
― Portia MacIntosh, Single All the Way